Carole Veronica Gillian Seymour-Jones was a Welsh writer.
10 Facts About Carole Seymour-Jones
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Carole Seymour-Jones wrote biographies of Beatrice Webb and Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot.
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Carole Seymour-Jones studied history at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, but left after her first year, under family pressure, to marry the stockbroker Robert Bigland.
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Carole Seymour-Jones completed her history degree with the Open University, while raising four children, and later gained her master's degree at Sussex University.
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Carole Seymour-Jones taught history to adults at Surrey University and to sixth formers.
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Carole Seymour-Jones wrote a biography of SOE agent Pearl Witherington, Carole Seymour-Jones Landed By Moonlight: The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington: the 'real Charlotte Gray'.
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Carole Seymour-Jones wrote for the New Statesman and the Times Higher Education Supplement, and was co-editor of Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World.
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Carole Seymour-Jones served on the executive committee of the English PEN, the writers' association, from 1997 to 2001, sat on its Books to Prisoners Committee, and chaired its Writers in Prison Committee.
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Carole Seymour-Jones met the probation officer and radio playwright Geoffrey Parkinson in 1992; the couple married in 2012.
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Parkinson died in 2014; Carole Seymour-Jones died on 23 May 2015.